Recent content by Faemonic

I like watching anime, I can appreciate the stories in manga, smooth animation, coloring, even experimental art styles that remain anime-like... and even Western cartoons take on quite a bit of influence from a distinctive Japanese anime style. I guess that I can draw anime if I wanted to, but...

I figured that this would be the best or closest sub-form for podcasts, radio shows, maybe even audio books. Forum moderators please move this topic if I'm wrong. So, Welcome to Night Vale! It's like the X-Files, except nobody cares to deny anything (very hard. Don't talk to the angels, they...

I think it's amazing that we have the instruments and talents to actually get to know these things, even if we can't put them into action just yet. Even if we could travel at the speed of light, it would take a thousand times the length of time it took for human civilization to build (as Leeroy...

A few years ago, they found water on the moon, and the moon's supposed to be made up of just more of the earth's mantle. Could the moon have similar grains of water stored in its own mantle? I suppose though that we'll continue to get drinkable water from the water cycle that we have active...

I thought that I charged mine once every three days, but there's a similar topic that got me wondering and paying attention, and it turns out that my phone can last for a whopping eight days...if I don't use it for anything. Maybe once every three days was back when the life connected to my...

I disagree. It can be both a business move and a move that perpetuates and stems from cultural biases against women. Just because the people involved don't hold any vitriol against women as a concept or against individual women in real life, doesn't mean that they aren't making damaging...

Much as I enjoy speculative fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and all that--I really feel sometimes that I just have got to diversify! So, please feel free to recommend me your favorite realistic fiction, whether historical or contemporary, classics, young adult, or for whatever other demographic.

I've recently finished reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente. I thought that she had a very original voice, not to mention the content. It can be difficult to write wisdom and have it just work without sounding wrong, preachy, or...

So, going for smear theory of moon formation (that something crashed into a forming earth and smeared the moon out) the original date of formation was 100 million years into the formation of the solar system--give or take 20 million--and is now merely 40 million years into the formation of the...

This started out as a webcomic that was published in 2007, although people who put through the orders didn't get their copies until 2010--and then the website became defunct. One of the only reviews out there for 9th Elsewhere is absolutely scathing, which is fair but too bad because I...

If they're going to do it that way, then they should just do it. That's the way they roll. But they shouldn't make excuses for it, like, "Ugh, it's just too much work to create and program another character." They should just admit the real reason, that they're uncomfortable with a greater...

I love those! There's another band I've heard that does something like that, The Puppini Sisters: This cover was sort of a one-hit wonder, though. I thought their cover of "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" overused the harmonies, even in a style that's characterized by the tight...

For a while, the sidescroller genre of gaming was dead. Then Little Big Planet and Scribblenauts revived it, so maybe it's just a matter of trusting that in this industry at least it's largely "for gamers, by gamers" and somebody will catch on to what will sell because it's what gamers love and...

This Will Be The Day, by Jeff Williams. It's also the theme song for the animated series RWBY, which is viewable on the Rooster Teeth official YouTube channel. It never is the day, but it's rocking! Weeeee aaaaaaare liiiiiightniiiing...

It still is chess, though. Behemoth might add an element of chance that defeats the strategic purpose of the game, but Wonderland is just a variant. Also, the Behemoth can be considered a "fairy" piece, which is still a thing in chess. Maybe not in chess tournaments, but still counts to play it...